Escape From New York Screening

Part of our STAFF PICKS Series & Monthly Event: VHS PASTA NIGHT!!!

COME EARLY: 6:00-8:00 PM – We will be dishing up delicious pasta dinner specials while fun and funky retro vendors sell amazing goods in our lobby! Items may include: VHS, Vinyl Records, Retro Toys and Collectables, Artwork and More!!!

Movie starts at 8:00 PM ON VHS – featuring an amazing intro pre-show reel created by the folks from Sleepover Trading Company!

Film Synopsis:

In 1997, a major war between the United States and the Soviet Union is concluding, and the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes into the island, the president (Donald Pleasence) is taken hostage by a group of inmates. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a former Special Forces soldier turned criminal, is recruited to retrieve the president in exchange for his own freedom.

Directed by John Carpenter

R ‧ 1981 ‧ Action/Sci-fi ‧ 1h 39m